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Not seeing how that differs from the existing herdbooks that are kept for most breeds which are used to manage AIS programmes; they're how for example the Jersey and Guernsey remain distinct despite global distribution.

They've been digital for decades now...

As much as Mozilla would have liked Edge to replace EdgeHTML with its rendering engine, the odds on that happening would have been a lot higher if Mozilla was at a different point in its engineering cycle: it's in the middle of an ambitious rewrite of its own rendering engine, in a new language...

With Servo only just in developer preview, it's not going to be fit for Microsoft's enterprise customer needs for another couple of years, and taking a dependency on Rust would have been hard for Microsoft as it has its own languages that serve much the same purpose.

Choosing a mature browser platform written on C and C++ makes a lot of sense when thought of in those terms.

I still have the certificate from back when I was Screeched-In in the early '00s; after a couple of months in St John's working with a software company there that was lead contractor on a project I was architecting...

I was on a boat at the time...

We are. In London the DLR is the most obvious driverless network, but various parts of the Tube have been essentially driverless since the 1980s (initially on the Victoria Line, then on the Central after its resignalling, and on the Jubilee extension).

Back when I worked on skywave HF OTHR systems in the late 80s we knew that they could detect and pinpoint stealth aircraft easily.

Most stealth systems are designed to either absorb or reflect millimetric point source radar. HF long wavelength systems reflect nicely off the top surfaces of the aircraft, which aren't designed to dissipate and absorb those frequencies. To one of those systems a stealth aircraft shows up brighter than a 747...

So while this is neat science, it's not economical compared to the systems currently in use. The only real downside of OTHR systems is that you need a couple of miles space for the transmit antenna and a big empty space for the receiver; plus plenty of CPU to process the data.

AKA; let's reinvent Lotus Notes. I thought the last Domino had already fallen.

The update to "Billion Year Spree", "Trillion Year Spree" is highly recommended.

Well, on the UK side of things you can probably pick any of the authors published during Michael Moorcock's tenure at New Worlds: so Aldiss, Moorcock, M John Harrison, Hilary Bailey, Ballard, Barrington J Bayley, Disch, Brunner.

You can also probably toss in Delany, Spinrad, much of Dangerous Visions, and then go on from there.

The movement, if there was one, is best characterised by a shift from puzzle stories to more complex fiction, with some authors crossing the divide, like Silverberg and Zelazny in the US.

Thanks! I'll correct it.

Back the end of September I was photographing folk on the Dawn Wall from down the valley, as we were passing through from the Bay to Park City, heading to a futurist conference...

https://flic.kr/p/N3KDST

I'm also guessing that they now have to figure out how to redesign their product for C&P, post-Target. That's going to be expensive, as it'll change the backend as well as the reader - and require significant certification as a two-part system.

Nokia wanted to use its maps and not Google's, but still be a Google services licensee. That's a no go as far as Google is concerned. Microsoft let Nokia replace its Bing maps with Here, and in fact licensed it as a replacement for the Bing mapping data.

Third party apps on carrier devices that have the Google Play store are in addition to the Google services, not replacing them. The Google services are all there, even if they're hidden.

It's somewhat reminiscent of the ROM-based BBC Micro game Doctor Who and The Mines of Terror. Minus the programmable robot cat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_and_the_Mines_of_Ter...